* Pawe?? Lasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The best thing about autotools is I think the scheme of running > configure - AFAIK mplayer doesn't even use configure for it's script, > instead > they use their own, which looks the same to end user. And saves a lot > of time :-)
ACK. The fact that there's such an script with an standardized command line interface is quite good. I which there were more packages providing this interface (instead there a lots of packages providing an ./configure script which isn't only incompatible but even more crap than autoconf stuff, eg. Perl's). BTW: mplayer's configure script is hand-written (in principle a good thing ;-p), but it's incompatible with the GNU style. Rich Felker's comment on this: "we dont want people to mix it up with this autoconf crap" Last time I checked, it also didn't make consequent use of pkg-config (but used it a few times). Rich Felker's comment: "we dont want to require this pkg-config crap" well ... cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
